Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: Lars Rzymianowicz <lr@mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
Subject: Re: PVM 2 MPI?
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Mannheim, Germany
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 08:42:19 +0200
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Yon Han CHONG wrote:
> You might want to chack out "unify". According to the brief discription:
>      The Unify subset implemenation of MPI was developed at Mississippi
>      State University. It runs on top of PVM and provides the programmer
>      with a dual-API; single programs can contain both MPI and PVM code.

Huh, must be very confusing to use this. A cross-compiler (perhaps not
very
efficient) might be ok, but mixing two Message Passing Libs in one App,
is this something we should tell people who want to learn MPI or PVM?
Think about mixing C and Fortran code...

Lars

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